Bug 2386869

Summary:	Offline upgrades cannot read package header
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh>
Component:	dnf5	Assignee:	rpm-software-management
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Version:	42	CC:	jonathan, mblaha, pkratoch, ppisar, rpm-software-management
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Description Stephen Gallagher 2025-08-06 14:29:23 UTC

Attempting to perform `dnf offline-upgrade download` followed by `dnf offline-upgrade reboot` on a Raspberry Pi 400 (rev 1.0) system fails every time. It reports:

```
Failed to read package header from file "/usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/offline/./packages/freeipa-client-encrypted-dns-4.12.2-14.fc42.aarch64.rpm"
```

and reboots, canceling the transaction and refusing to update.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 42 on a Raspberry Pi 400 (presumably Pi 4 also)
2. dnf offline-upgrade download
3. dnf offline-upgrade reboot
4. Once the system reboots, check the packages installed with `rpm -q`
Actual Results:
None of the staged upgrades have been performed

Expected Results:
Upgrades should be applied.

Additional Information:
The journal for the previous boot shows the error message:

```
Failed to read package header from file "/usr/lib/sysimage/libdnf5/offline/./packages/freeipa-client-encrypted-dns-4.12.2-14.fc42.aarch64.rpm"
```
(the actual RPM represented varies).

Performing a `dnf upgrade` on the live system completes without issue. (I tried with several individual packages, including the kernel.)

Comment 1 Marek Blaha 2025-08-07 06:54:43 UTC

I believe this is due to raspberry does not have a real time clock. But we should at least present more accurate message to the user.

There are some workarounds you can try listed in this discussion: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/dnf-system-upgrade-can-fail-on-raspberry-pi/92403

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2242759 ***